On January 23,
2020, Montclair State University will be hosting a local Open Round
competition of the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO).
This event is meant to
expose high-school students to linguistics, and to increase general awareness
of linguistics as an academic discipline.
In the competition,
students solve analytical problems drawn widely from the world's
languages.
The problems require only
general reasoning skills. No special knowledge of linguistics or languages
is expected.
The competition will be
held on
January 23, 2020, at
10:00AM-1:00PM
Feliciano School of Business
3rd floor, Room 327
Montclair State
University
Montclair, NJ 07043
(Please, arrive at
least 30 minutes before the start time!)
RED HAWK DECK GUEST PARKING:
1) From Normal Avenue -- take the College Avenue Entrance
2) Turn onto College Avenue (Main Campus Entrance directly across
from 30 East Normal Avenue)
3) Continue on College Avenue as it bends to the left.
4) The Red Hawk Deck Parking Garage will be on your right, adjacent
to the Alexander Kasser Theater.
5) Park in the garage and exit the garage from the Fifth Floor.
6) Follow the path straight ahead (soccer field on your left) to the
Feliciano School of Business building.
NOTE: when using GPS, use 30 East Normal
Avenue, Montclair 07043 | Handicap parking is available in the Red Hawk Deck
NACLO is held in the USA
and in Canada. High school students in New Jersey can participate at the local
competition site at Montclair State University.
Students can register
for the contest online with the central North American organization: http://www.nacloweb.org/register_student.php
The principle NACLO site
(http://nacloweb.org/) has rules and practice problems for students
to review, and all the details about the event.
See practice problems
at http://www.nacloweb.org/practice.php.
Linguistics is not usually
introduced at the high-school level, so students who enter college are often
unaware of it as a choice.
Linguistics is the
general study of language. It addresses such questions as properties that
languages have in common; how language is learned, produced, and understood;
how languages change
through time and vary across geographic regions or social strata; and the
design of language technologies such as speech recognition, machine translation
and information retrieval.
NACLO is currently
sponsored by the US National Science Foundation, Google, the North American
Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), and Cambridge
University Press.
Top scorers in the Open
Round in January will be eligible to compete in an Invitational Round
on March 5, 2020.
Winners of that
competition will be eligible to participate in the International Linguistics
Olympiad (ILO). This year it will take place in Ventspils, Latvia
http://www.ioling.org/
If you have any
questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at
Anna Feldman, Ph.D.
Professor
Computer Science &
Linguistics